Hi, Am Mittwoch, den 02.04.2008, 03:01 +0300 schrieb Roman Cheplyaka:
I'm investigating how to make per-workspace backgrounds. On xmonad side solution is pretty simple using logHook (thanks #xmonad-ers for hints!)
The other problem is the speed. Currently I use "qiv -z" to update the background (big jpeg photo) and it takes about 0.7-0.8s. Preliminary converting it to the size of display (1280x1024) gives 0.3-0.4s. It's still barely acceptable.
So, how can I do better? Does X renders jpeg itself, or qiv converts jpeg to some other format? Then preliminary converting would also save the time.
Any suggestions are welcome.
To make it really fast enough you’d need a long-running program (similar to xmobar I guess) that creates a pixmap on the X server for all backgrounds and just switches them without re-loading them. This program then needs to be controlled from the logHook (again similar to xmobar). Re-Loading a file from disk to the X server on every desktop change will be too slow even for bpm files, i think. (But that’s just guessing). Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner mail: mail@joachim-breitner.de | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Key: 4743206C JID: nomeata@joachim-breitner.de | http://www.joachim-breitner.de/ Debian Developer: nomeata@debian.org